In the era of fifth generation (5G) telecommunication systems, a flexible, cost saving and
reliable deployment of the network infrastructures appears to be a crucial issue. The …

The Network Function Virtualization (NFV) initiative involving the European
Telecommunications Standard Institute (ETSI) and a group of telecom companies, started in …

The Network Function Virtualization (NFV) paradigm is giving impetus to novel
telecommunication infrastructures that readily benefit from virtualized environments. One of …

Nowadays, telecom providers may benefit from the flexibility offered by Network Function
Virtualization (NFV) paradigm that allows to decouple the service logic from the underlying …

The failure of a single network element composing a Service Function Chain (SFC)
unavoidably leads to some degradation in terms of availability (ability of guaranteeing …

Abstract The Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has been conceived as an enabler of
novel network infrastructures and services that can be deployed by combining virtualized …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is an emerging solution that aims at improving the
flexibility, the efficiency and the manageability of networks, by leveraging virtualization and …

A significant fraction of current research in telecommunications is investigating new
paradigms to guarantee high flexibility in deploying network infrastructures. Network …

Service provisioning mechanisms implemented across 5G infrastructures take broadly into
use the network service chain concept. Typically, it is coupled with Network Function …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) calls for a new resource management approach
where virtualized network functions (VNFs) replace traditional network hardware appliances …